Oak Brook is a village of long lawns and old bur oaks, with Salt Creek winding through Fullersburg Woods and past the Graue Mill wheel like it has all the time in the world. Landscape Illinois mows at that scale — the sweeping front lawns where a crooked line would be visible from the road, and the shaded back acres where the deck has to work around root flare and low limbs. Cut, trim, edge, blow the clippings off the pavement: the sequence never changes, and the finish is the argument. April brings the cleanup that gets beds and turf out from under the winter, and late autumn brings weeks of oak leaves, which come down slowly and have to be gathered more than once. Between the creek bottoms and the open lawns, this is a village that shows its care from a distance.